Could someone please help me understand

Earlier today I was exploring research ideas an concepts, and getting more and more ideas. I was getting really excited. Then something triggered a memory and that set off similar memories, not positive. There was so much noise in my head. I started rocking and holding my head, and I was desperately trying to mask it and push through it. Then I started to feel unwell. I had to go out on an errand and thought the fresh air would help. I started feeling really disconnected and my peripheral vision was out of focus. The bright noisy shop was unsettling and people suddenly appearing near me was scary. I was feeling really unwell. I had to ask for something at a counter and had to force the words. The short walk home and I felt really wrong. Managed to tell husband that I needed to lie down. I grabbed my dressing gown and pulled it over my head and just lay there. At some point I fell asleep. Got woken up awhile later because someone shouted. I just lay on my bed unable to move for a long time. My kids came in and chatted to me and all I need was stare at them. 

I was feeling very drained, shaky and more jumpy than usual.

Then my kids started bickering and I could hear then fiddling with something (they are not little) and their arguing and the clicking noises got to me. I screamed and shouted so aggressively. 

This was a little while ago.

I still feel so drained, shaky and jumpy.

Could someone please let me know what happened, I really want to understand. 

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  • Evenin' Pikl.

    I can't explain (although it sounds like a form of meltdown thingy-ma-jig) - but I can tell you that, on occasion, I have had a similarly super-uncomfortable / quasi medical event for no apparent reason.  With mine, I tend to get kaleidoscope vision effects.  It is very unpleasant and very unsettling.

    If it is any comfort to you - I've had this happen to me on a handful of occasions over the last decade or so - but have never had any form of lasting nor apparent long term or underlying problem.

    The worst time this happened to me, I was driving !  I stopped and rested for a good couple of hours without moving.  It was scary - but I was OK. 

  • It might be an ocular migraine, if you do an image search it should turn up recreations of what that looks like. I get them occasionally, it was scary until I knew what it was but it turns out my Dad gets them. I don't get any other symptoms, no headache or anything, just a weird jagged light effect in the centre of vision like a dot that grows bigger until it goes all the way out to the edge of the eye, but it's only the edge that is jagged colourful lights with normal vision inside it. It takes about half an hour to pass. Your thing might be something different of course.

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  • It might be an ocular migraine, if you do an image search it should turn up recreations of what that looks like. I get them occasionally, it was scary until I knew what it was but it turns out my Dad gets them. I don't get any other symptoms, no headache or anything, just a weird jagged light effect in the centre of vision like a dot that grows bigger until it goes all the way out to the edge of the eye, but it's only the edge that is jagged colourful lights with normal vision inside it. It takes about half an hour to pass. Your thing might be something different of course.

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